Here we go again ... the shared birthday cake. Laura is turning 5 and has 5 candles, while unnamed sibling is turning 6. What could be more appropriate than a fedora cake. Topped with iced Twinkies. Yes, Ryan, that was the first thing I noticed, too.

I find that pink dome shaped thing with 'shagger' written on it positioned beneath the scarily goitred hairy blonde man-cake really disturbing. Shagger does mean the same thing in the US as it does over here, right? ..erk.....

#1: see, the blind albino legless striped turtle doesn't like square baseballs either. He's either pouncing on it or shying away from it.

#2: WHY would a five year old girl need a fedora for a birthday cake?? what are these parents thinking? maybe it's really supposed to be a hot dog bun minus the hot dog for some strange eating fetish? I just. don't. get.it. Or maybe she likes to play dressup in "boy clothes." from the 50's.

#4: ah, poo hats with red ribbon and blue flowers. what COULD be the occasion? maybe for the pimp's bridal party.

#5: Poor Pooh and Tigger trying to escape that hideous volcanic eruption and hot lava spots! going over the side in a barrel (er, honeypot)

#6: looks like a tarantula that had a little too much to drink at a Christmas party and got left behind, passed out in the mess with the confetti, the hat, and the green hue...He looks so lonely. I kinda like that cake! I see a story happening here.

#7: is that an Irish turtle? looking a little leprachaunish there

#8: dude, that head is scary. the hair, the skin, the huge chin, the creepy eyes staring at me....

#9: LOL Shagger cake! which end is up? smooth, flesh colored fondant...."Shagging" is slang in Britain for "adult activities" involving nudity. WHAT is going on with that cake? I'm not convinced it's a hard HAT

ConGRADulations? are white fedoras getting confused with graduation caps? or is it from pimp & ho school?

@Sandy C: grave site for two dead twinkies? LOL@Katie: if Laura likes Indy Jones, I'm glad her mother had the wisdom to NOT include the whip. glad "Shagger" doesn't have a whip either, for that matter!

wv: sumbra. what a drunk non-mexican person remembers as a "sombrero."

Kate, I thought the same thing... and I prefer to think of it as a slightly wrecked pimp hat and not a totally wrecked dress..... though maybe the bride is deformed and the dress was drawn to match the custom-made dress that would fit her weird, deformed body?

"Shagging" still makes me giggle, because everywhere else, it means what you think it means. But here, in South Carolina, it's a dance. The official dance of South Carolina, actually. It's kind of like a really slow swing dancing, so it's not even interesting to watch, in my non-Southern perspective. But I will never forget the first time I saw a resume where someone had listed "Shagging" as a personal interest--it was then that I had to start questioning my decision to move here.

@Anonymous at 11:43-- O.o I hope that person never applies for a job outside South Carolina. Can you imagine the reaction to that item on their resume if it isn't for a job in the porn industry?!

#1 Given that's a CCC (patooie), that means they are using *round* cupcakes. So 1 cupcake = a round baseball. Make a bat out of the extra three cupcakes rather than a square ball!!

#2 Maybe poor Laura's a fan of riding? And it was easier to do an oddly-proportioned but at least well-iced hat than a horse?? Oh wait, that's not a helmet. And there's 11 candles... hope she can't count yet! And why is the Happy birthday not written below the Laura 5th?

#3 A very short poufy-skirted strapless wedding gown for a very fat bride? Or one of those massive white hats worn in-- Texas, I think??

#4 Those don't look like hats. they look like flaccid anatomy... would biting in to them make a woman a Bobbitt-wannabe?

#5 I hope that recipient isn't scared of clowns. Or their hats! And why is Winnie and Tigger sitting on its side??

#6 It does look like an algae covered squid... or else it's one of yesterday's pompoms under a party hat?

#7 A hat-wearing unhappy leprechaun turtle? for a birthday?? Yeah. Well, at least that store did it as a cupcake mosaic rather than a CCC...

#8 Given that probably took quite a bit of time, I bet that the decorator was very proud of that cake, and would be horrified to learn it's considered a wreck. With a chin that size, I think that guy is related to a former Canadian prime minister...

#9 Aren't construction site hard-hats supposed to be yellow to make the wearer more visible? Because that looks more like a "hat" on another "hard" "head". And the "shagger" applies more to the latter than the former!

I was so distracted by the, um, skill required to make a square baseball out of round cupcakes that I'm going to have to go back later to appreciate the other wrecks fully. Seriously, how DO you make a square creation out of round objects to represent a round object? It really boggles the mind.

Oh, and as if I didn't already have the Indiana Jones theme song stuck in my head from rewatching one of them the other day... Excuse me while I go find my whip and hiss that I hate snakes.

Re: #2..I couldn't swear to it, of course, but I think Laura's fedora is in honor of Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb. Or really...his alter-ego, Agent P: http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/cartoons/pages/phineas-and-ferb-perry.shtml

Cake #2: This, it seems, is Indiana Jones's little-known Stetson hat. Although, tbh, the brim looks like it got steamrolled, if they'd just cut off that edge in front between the Twinkies it really wouldn't have looked quite that terrible!

At first I thought the fedora cuppies were very small anatomy lessons, as they all looked like a snapshot of the digestion lesson. Lots of frosting intestines, mmmmmmmm!

The pooh volcano cake makes me think of that horrible movie, Joe vs the Volcano. Didn't Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan escape in a barrel or something? Anyhow, that's what I thought of. I still have no idea what it's supposed to actually be. Pooh vs the Volcano Cake?

Are congradulations only for graduations, and congratulations for other special occasions? This misspelling shows up almost as much as definately. Come on people, definitely!!!! At least they don't usually write definately on cakes!OK, spelling rant over. Now breathe, breathe...

okay, I liked the hard hat, I thought it looked nice... That is actually one thing you could ding the fondant on to enhance the appearance... have you ever seen a perfect hard hat? Hope you found a party, if I could wear a hat at work I so would do it, just because, but since my hair has grown back, cannot use that whole chemo-made-my-hair-fall-out-so-it-is-okay-for-me-to-wear-a-hat....

Oddly enough, I don't recall ever seeing "Winnie the Pooh and the greenish-yellow volcano with red polka dots" ... Surely with a title like that, it'd be at least as memorable as "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" ... This merits at least 4 rides in the new Fantasyland

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